Heroes project



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Heroes English class project

A hero is someone who has achieved something or made a difference to people’s lives and is a shining example to others.

Make sure that your Hero has done one of the above and there are enough resources to research for them.

Find out:

1. What is their achievement?

When did they achieve this? How come?

2. Their family background: who was in their family? What kind of family did they have? Did they have supportive parents/teacher/own hero?

What school did they go to?

Who were their friends? What kind of town did they come from?

What kind of school did they go to? Did they do well or badly at school?

3. Growing up – how did they get on? What job did they do? Or university they attended?

4. What did they actually do? What makes them a hero?

Give full details

5. Why did you pick this person?

Why are they your hero?

Why should they be remembered?

Harriet Tubman became famous as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s. Born a slave on Maryland's eastern shore, she endured brutal beatings by her master and the harsh regime of the field hand. Her life was a testimony to the fierce resistance of African-American people to slavery.

In 1849 Tubman fled Maryland, leaving behind her free husband of five years, John Tubman, and her parents, sisters, and brothers. "Mah people mus' go free," her constant refrain, suggests a determination uncommon among even the most militant slaves. She returned to the South at least nineteen times to lead her family and hundreds of other slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Utilizing her native intelligence and drawing on her boundless courage, she eluded bounty hunters seeking a reward for her capture, which eventually went as high as forty thousand dollars. She never lost a fugitive or allowed one to turn back.

Two things sustained her: the pistol at her side and her faith in God. She would not hesitate to use the pistol in self-defense, but it was also a symbol to instruct slaves, making it clear that "dead Negroes tell no tales." Timid slaves seemed to find courage in her presence; no one ever betrayed her. She affirmed her faith in God in her statement, "I always tole God, I'm gwine to hole stiddy on to you, an' you've got to see me trou [through]."

Tubman collaborated with John Brown in 1858 in planning his raid on Harpers Ferry. The two met in Canada where she told him all she knew of the Underground Railroad in the East. Advising him on the area in which he planned to operate, she promised to deliver aid from fugitives in the region. Brown's admiration for her was immeasurable, and he wanted her to accompany him on the raid. Tubman planned to be present but was ill at the time and could not participate.

Tubman's resistance to slavery did not end with the outbreak of the Civil War. Her services as nurse, scout, and spy were solicited by the Union government. For more than three years she nursed the sick and wounded in Florida and the Carolinas, tending whites and blacks, soldiers and contrabands. Tubman was a short woman without distinctive features. With a bandanna on her head and several front teeth missing, she moved unnoticed through rebel territory. This made her invaluable as a scout and spy under the command of Col. James Montgomery of the Second Carolina Volunteers. As leader of a corps of local blacks, she made several forays into rebel territory, collecting information. Armed with knowledge of the location of cotton warehouses, ammunition depots, and slaves waiting to be liberated, Colonel Montgomery made several raids in southern coastal areas. Tubman led the way on his celebrated expedition up the Combahee River in June 1863. For all of her work, Tubman was paid only two hundred dollars over a three-year period and had to support herself by selling pies, gingerbread, and root beer.

After the war, Tubman returned to Auburn, New York, and continued to help blacks forge new lives in freedom. She cared for her parents and other needy relatives, turning her residence into the Home for Indigent and Aged Negroes. Lack of money continued to be a pressing problem, and she financed the home by selling copies of her biography and giving speeches. Her most memorable appearance was at the organizing meeting of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 in Washington, D.C. Two generations came together to celebrate the strength of black women and to continue their struggle for a life of dignity and respect. Harriet Tubman, the oldest member present, was the embodiment of their strength and their struggle.



Arminita Green was born in 1820 and she was called Minty until she changed her name to Harriet in her early teens. She was born into slavery on a plantation owned by Edward Brodess. When she was a girl, she was frequently "rented" out to neighboring plantations and farms to do housework (even though she was not very good at it and was beaten frequently) but was eventually given a job working as a field hand.

She sustained a head injury at age fifteen when she blocked the way of an overseer who was chasing another slave when the overseer hit her on the head with a heavy weight. Harriet was ill for a long time and would drift off to sleep at random moments. This made her unattractive to other slave owners.

In 1845 She married John Tubman, a free black, but the marriage did not last. It was shortly after her marriage that she hired a lawyer to investigate her legal history, and discovered that her mother had been freed because of the death of a previous owner. But the lawyer advised Harriet that a court would be unlikely to hear the case, so she dropped it. But knowing that she should have been born free, not a slave, caused her to think more and more about freedom. And in 1849 she made her way to Philadelphia, and freedom.

(born June 19, 1945, Rangoon, Burma [now Yangon, Myanmar]) Myanmar opposition leader, daughter of Aung San (a martyred national hero of independent Burma) and Khin Kyi (a prominent Burmese diplomat), and winner in 1991 of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Aung San Suu Kyi was two years old when her father, then the de facto prime minister of what would shortly become independent Burma, was assassinated. She attended schools in Burma until 1960, when her mother was appointed ambassador to India. After further study in India, she attended the University of Oxford, where she met her future husband. She had two children and lived a rather quiet life until 1988, when she returned to Burma to nurse her dying mother. There the mass slaughter of protesters against the brutal and unresponsive rule of the military strongman U Ne Win led her to speak out against him and to begin a nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights. In July 1989 the military government of the newly named Union of Myanmar placed Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest and held her incommunicado. The military offered to free her if she agreed to leave Myanmar, but she refused to do so until the country was returned to civilian government and political prisoners were freed. The newly formed group with which she became affiliated, the National League for Democracy (NLD), won more than 80 percent of the parliamentary seats that were contested in 1990, but the results of that election were ignored by the military government.

Aung San Suu Kyi was freed from house arrest in July 1995. The following year she attended the NLD party congress, but the military government continued to harass both her and her party. In 1998 she announced the formation of a representative committee that she declared was the country's legitimate ruling parliament. The military junta once again placed her under house arrest from September 2000 to May 2002. Following clashes between the NLD and pro-government demonstrators in 2003, the government returned her to house arrest. Calls for her release continued throughout the international community in the face of her sentence's annual renewal, and in 2009 a United Nations body declared her detention illegal under Myanmar's own law. In 2008 the conditions of her house arrest were somewhat loosened, allowing her to receive some magazines as well as letters from her children.

In May 2009, shortly before her most recent sentence was to be completed, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest after an intruder (a U.S. citizen) entered her house compound and spent two nights there. In August she was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison, though the sentence immediately was reduced to 18 months, and she was allowed to serve it while remaining under house arrest. The belief was widespread both within and outside of Myanmar that this latest conviction was designed to prevent Aung from participating in multiparty elections scheduled for 2010.

And love is not the easy thing

The only baggage that you can bring...

And love is not the easy thing...

The only baggage you can bring

Is all that you can't leave behind

And if the darkness is to keep us apart

And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off

And if your glass heart should crack

And for a second you turn back

Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on

What you got they can't steal it

No they can't even feel it

Walk on, walk on...

Stay safe tonight

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been

A place that has to be believed to be seen

You could have flown away

A singing bird in an open cage

Who will only fly, only fly for freedom

Walk on, walk on

What you've got they can't deny it

Can't sell it, or buy it

Walk on, walk on

Stay safe tonight

And I know it aches

And your heart it breaks

And you can only take so much

Walk on, walk on

Home... hard to know what it is if you've never had one

Home... I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home

That's where the heart is

and I know it aches

How your heart it breaks

And you can only take so much

Walk on, walk on

Leave it behind

You got to leave it behind

All that you fashion

All that you make

All that you build

All that you break

All that you measure

All that you feel

All this you can leave behind

All that you reason

All that you sense

All that you speak

All you dress-up

All that you scheme...

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[pic]Burma media warns of 'tragic end' for Aung San Suu Kyi

[pic]Aung San Suu Kyi's party has said sanctions could be modified to improve living conditions

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Burma: Battle for Democracy

• Profile: Thein Sein

• In pictures: Parliament opens

• Burma election: Q&A

• Burma's evolving opposition

Burma's state media have published their first direct criticism of the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi since her release from house arrest.

The commentary said she and her party would "meet their tragic end" if they continued to endorse Western sanctions.

Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest last November, after she and the NLD were excluded from the country's first elections in 20 years.

Burma now has a civilian government but the army still dominates parliament.

Commentary published in state-run newspapers accused Aung San Suu Kyi and the banned National League for Democracy (NLD) of "going the wrong way".

It said they had been "ignoring the fact that today's Myanmar [Burma] is marching to a new era, new system and new political platforms paving the way for democracy".

If they continued on this path they would "meet their tragic end", the writer warned, without giving further details.

'Big-headed'

The commentary also accused the NLD of being "big-headed" for sticking to "the weapon of sanctions until it gains power by demanding that any changes and modifications should be made in consultation with the party, let alone lifting the sanctions".

On a more conciliatory note, it invited Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD to co-operate in building what it called a democratic nation, without saying what form this co-operation might take.

The criticism comes days after the NLD said it supported Western sanctions, but wanted talks on whether to modify them.

Burma's military rulers have long argued against sanctions, saying they hurt the people of Burma and have pushed the country deeper into poverty.

Since 65-year-old Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's release after two decades in nearly constant detention, the government has shown little reaction to her public appearances and speeches.

A veteran opposition politician told the BBC he believed the newspaper criticism was part of a new attempt by the government to suppress her and the NLD, which was forced to disband last year after refusing to participate in the elections.

The military has always maintained that November's elections were part of a roadmap to democracy in Burma, but they were widely dismissed as corrupt.

Come and see me

Sing me to sleep

Come and free me

Or hold me if i need to weep

Or maybe it's not the season

Or maybe it's not the year

Or maybe there's no good reason

Why i'm locked up inside

Just cause they wanna hide me

The moon goes bright

The darker they make my night

Unplayed pianos

Are often by a window

In a room where nobody loved goes

She sits alone with her silent song

Somebody bring her home

Unplayed piano (unplayed piano)

Still holds a tune (still holds a tune)

Lock on the lid (years, years pass by)

In a stale, stale room (in the changing of the moon)

Maybe it's not that easy (too many windows)

Or maybe it's not that hard (in a stale, stale room)

Maybe they could release me (stale, stale room)

Let the people decide

I've got nothing to hide

I've done nothing wrong

So why've i been here so long?

Unplayed pianos

Are often by a window

In a room where nobody loved goes

She sits alone with her silent song

Somebody bring her home

Unplayed pianos

Are often by a window

In a room where nobody loved goes

She sits alone with her silent song

Somebody bring her home

Unplayed piano (unplayed piano)

Still holds a tune

Years pass by

In the changing of the moon

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Does a man become a hero through some transformation of mind and soul? Or is a hero someone who sets out on a quest to save the world?

Many think you have to be someone who stands out to be a hero, but my definition of a hero is simple: Someone who gives their all in what they are doing on a day-to-day basis. Someone who is not afraid to do great things, but who is humble enough to do the small things that no one else will. A hero is honest, strong and brave.

I know this may sound just like another fairy tale, but there are real heroes all around us. You may never notice them, but that’s the beauty of it. You don’t have to shake the world to its foundations to be a true hero. A hero should also be an example, someone who stands for all they believe in.

They should be someone who represents their country.

Did I ever personally know a hero, you ask? Yes, I did. His name was Ben Logan. My American hero is definitely not famous, and many people will never even hear of him. But it doesn’t matter.

The people he impacted will always remember. He was a pastor, yet he was much more than that.

Most importantly, he was my beloved grandfather.

I say a hero is someone who leaves behind a legacy. Ben Logan did just that. To me, he was Papa, the man I love, miss, and hope to be like. This man gave his life for the people he cared about. No matter what the time, circumstance or person, he was always there to help someone.

He also served in the Army as both a soldier and a chaplain.

Now I don’t mean to put him on a pedestal, but it’s hard. I remember the time when my family needed to move away from the city, and he gave us room in his house.

So I tell you now, it doesn’t matter where a man comes from, or what he did in the past, but the choices he makes now. And it doesn’t matter if the hero is anonymous, for the best of them are.

What makes someone a hero?

We see that professional athletes, movie stars, business leaders, etc. are often admired for their success. The professional athlete who is the best, becomes looked at as a hero. And it is understandable, because their is a part of us all that at times would like to be able to do what he or she can do, to earn that much or to be able to play a sport the way the pro athlete can.  To me, though, this doesn’t make someone a hero, it makes them a fine athlete (or actor or financier or artist, etc.)

To me, a hero is someone who takes what they have, their abilities,  gifts, situation, etc. and uses those gifts to do good. Anyone can be a hero; we all have this potential.  The single parent who works long hours so their child can have a better life; the stay at home parent who after a long day of caring  for the kids,  still makes the extra effort  when their child is in need;  the professional athlete who becomes a role model and  a mentor to children; the financier who starts a foundation to help to change the world;  the teacher who, though having an overfilled class, still makes time to help a student who is having trouble with the work; the brother who spends some extra time playing catch with his little brother, even though he could be hanging out with friends; the painter who paints a house and makes an extra effort to make it look nice;  the doctor who volunteers to do health education, to spend time caring for the underserved or to improve the delivery of health care to their patients…

Anyone can  be a hero and it is not about what you have that makes you a hero. It is about what you do with what you have been given.  How do you define a hero?

Have a good day!

A hero is someone that would do something extraordinary to save something or someone very valuable. A hero has integrity, bravery, & will go where no human has gone before! AGREE OR DISAGEE WITH THIS STATEMENT

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